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10 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Is this what the 70s were like?
Here's real median personal income since the 70s
And a photo of a gas line
Also, all these people who are like "But women didn't have to work in the 70s!" are huffing the fumes of their own fantasies. Women's labor force participation is 56% now, compared to 43% at the start of the 70s.

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11 Oct
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1/One reason I'm so happy about the popularity of South Korean stuff in America is that I think it'll help Americans become less provincial.

One of my big theses is that most Americans barely even realize that other countries exist, and need to get out more.
2/In this regard, the South Korean wave is very different from the Japanese entertainment products that Americans like. Those products are mostly fantasy stuff -- cartoons, comics, video games...
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Americans who get into Japanese fantasy generally aren't connecting with the actual country of Japan.

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1/OK, time for a thread about why the negotiations over the Build Back Better bill (Biden's reconciliation bill) are leaving me underwhelmed.

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2. Cash benefits

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3/And in fact, the provisions of the Build Back Better bill mostly fall into these three categories (some of them into multiple categories).
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2 Oct
Idle thought: Traditionally, campaigns of conquest were used as pressure valves, to give ambitious aggressive men something to do other than overthrow the government. But China is just way too big for this, especially compared to the size of the territories it might conquer.
If ambitious Chinese men get mad at the Xi Jinping regime in the wake of its crackdowns on business, there's no way Xi can say "Here, instead of getting mad at me, go conquer Taiwan and the little bits of India, Japan, and Vietnam that we claim." Those are just too small.
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